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Weave.js Backend Showcase

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This repository contain the Weave.js showcase backend, its a demo of a backend that handles the real-time collaboration infrastructure for the Weave.js showcase frontend. It serves as the server-side component that:

• 🌐 Manages room sessions and user connections
• 🔄 Handles real-time synchronization of canvas state (e.g. using Yjs or WebSocket)
• 👥 Supports multi-user presence, awareness, and broadcasting
• 🔐 May include persistence, authentication, or permission logic

This backend is designed to demonstrate how Weave.js can be integrated into a full-stack collaborative environment, enabling live shared editing across clients.

• Express.js

• Weave.js
• Weave.js showcase frontend

You can locally launch the backend showcase by:

• Install dependencies with: npm install

• Create your local environment file from the template (from /code): cp .env.example .env

• Update /code/.env with the required values (including PostgreSQL and Azure variables).

• Start PostgreSQL with the provided compose file: docker compose -f code/docker-compose.yml up -d db

• Run database migrations (from /code): cd code && npm run db:migrate:dev

• Run the backend (from /code): cd code && npm run dev

You'll need access to a:

• Azure Web PubSub instance.
• Azure Blob Storage instance.

This project is licensed under the terms of the Apache-2.0 license.

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